Tales from Duty Finder: Some make you laugh, some make you cry. Let's vent. 2.0

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

What are the iLevels of these?

Those are Dai-Ryumyaku set, save the earring being Menphina's so... i370 plus that.

[BRVV]

Those are Dai-Ryumyaku set, save the earring being Menphina's so... i370 plus that.

So that person is Level 80+ and wears gear that is 60 iLevels under the tomestone gear of Level 70? Yikes

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

So that person is Level 80+ and wears gear that is 60 iLevels under the tomestone gear of Level 70? Yikes

If I have to make a wild guess, they probably been hanging in BSF to level for so long they forgot gears matters outside. Then bam, Zodiark says hi when they queued into roulette.

[Rilifane]

If I have to make a wild guess, they probably been hanging in BSF to level for so long they forgot gears matters outside. Then bam, Zodiark says hi when they queued into roulette.

Every time one of my friends joined for a roulette and said "My gear is outdated but as long as we don't get the highest duty, it'll be fine" it backfired hard.
You get a string of ARR trials - until you're undergeared for your level, then it'll be the likes of Zodiark. Or better yet, get thrown into Planetflinger.

[Curisu]

Oh yeah, fully geared on a class you like to play.
Trails are ARR ones and leveling is always sub 50 dungeons.

Once you go on a class you don't bother to equip well because you don't want to actively play it. Bam, highest possible dungeon and trail.

Had already situations were I just left because of my extremely low gear and because I didn't had all available spells in my hot bars.

[TheMightyMollusk]

Towards the end of Shadowbringers, I decided to dust off black mage (which I hadn't played in over a year) and figured Crystal Tower Roulette would be safe enough. I got eleven days straight of the Tower at Paradigm's Breech instead.

[RobynDaBank]

How does one do the big-boy pulls in Bardam's Mettle as DRK? Halp... I've had not a single successful big first pull.

Edit to mention, I finally understand the grating annoyance of not having your Living Dead have a chance to actually stretch its legs. I got yelled at for using no defensives when I pressed it... you're the one who Benediction-ed me to full at the hourglass buff, WHM...

[Deveryn]

How does one do the big-boy pulls in Bardam's Mettle as DRK? Halp... I've had not a single successful big first pull.

Edit to mention, I finally understand the grating annoyance of not having your Living Dead have a chance to actually stretch its legs. I got yelled at for using no defensives when I pressed it... you're the one who Benediction-ed me to full at the hourglass buff, WHM...

Bardam can be rough as any tank. Everyone has to be on their game and properly geared for things to go well on big pulls. How big are you talking on the first pull? Going all the way to the walls doesn't end well most of the time.

[SnowVix]

Towards the end of Shadowbringers, I decided to dust off black mage (which I hadn't played in over a year) and figured Crystal Tower Roulette would be safe enough. I got eleven days straight of the Tower at Paradigm's Breech instead.

Trial by Fire (IV)

[AnotherPerson]

How does one do the big-boy pulls in Bardam's Mettle as DRK? Halp... I've had not a single successful big first pull.

Edit to mention, I finally understand the grating annoyance of not having your Living Dead have a chance to actually stretch its legs. I got yelled at for using no defensives when I pressed it... you're the one who Benediction-ed me to full at the hourglass buff, WHM...

If you don't put a macro with a sound effect indication, most players assume the tank is just dumb or ran out of mitigations before seeing the tank invuln activate, which will prompt them to heal ahead of time. This is generally the most common reason.

Most healers already experience tanks who don't mitigate / ran out of mitigation from poor rotation and will then blame the healer after dropping low on HP/dying, so healers generally don't risk it without clear communication. Other times, the Invuln buff is hidden by the various other buffs on the status bar next to the party menu or the healer isn't glued to staring at your status bar.

Or the healer is just AFK healing, who knows. You can still get away with spamming Cure II in Bardam I think.